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General Principles of Administration and Civil Service in Germany

General Principles of Administration and Civil Service in Germany

(July 22,1944)

Chapter:

(p.301)
19 General Principles of Administration and Civil Service in Germany

Source:

Secret Reports on Nazi Germany

Author(s):

Otto Kircheimer

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691134130.003.0020

This chapter discusses the general principles of government administration and Civil Service in Germany. It begins with an overview of the administrative problems facing military government as well as the characteristics of the present-day administration. In particular, it considers the two features of the German administrative organization: the emergence of the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich as supreme governmental authority, and the cropping up of numerous special commissioners, who are appointed whenever regular agencies fail or new urgent tasks arise. The chapter proceeds by assessing the fate of the German central agencies, the German Civil Service, and the problem of Civil Service replacements. It concludes with recommendations regarding the policy towards German agencies.

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